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DRAMATIC TERMS SCAVENGER HUNT

Directions: Take a look at the definitions of these terms, as well as the provided
example. Unless directed to do otherwise, while working with a partner….
• create a little doodle to help you remember the word
• find examples of each of these terms in parts of the play we have read thus far

Acts- the major divisions of the play

Given Example:

All of Shakespeare’s plays have 5 Acts. Other plays will only have one, or two.

How do the 5 acts correspond to the five traditional parts of the plot diagram?

Below, match: The Act #, the plot part, and what is contained in the plot part

Acts: I, II, III, IV, V

Plot Part: climax, exposition, resolution, rising action, falling action
What is contained: the background, wrapping it up, turning point, complicating
everything, the story comes to an end

Scene- the smaller divisions of the Act

How many scenes are in each Act of Midsummer?

I: II: III: IV: V:

Scenery- backgrounds and backdrops of the stage

Given Example:

When we played MSND Puppets, Ms. McNeeley put a picture of the Parthenon, from
Ancient Athens, as a backdrop to add scenery.
Shakespeare did not use a lot of scenery… but if YOU were directing the play,
list some things you would include as scenery for Act II:
Doodle:

Stage directions- notes to the actor showing them where/how to

move on stage

Given Example:

[enter Oberon, the King of Fairies at one door, with his train, and Titania the Queen
at another, with hers]
Oberon: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania…

Find your own example from the play:

Doodle:

Meter- the pattern or beat that the words are said in

Given Example:
Try to figure out the meter from these lines. Make a dash mark where your
voice should rise:

If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumber'd here

While these visions did appear.

Iambic pentameter- “5-foot” measure of beat or rhythm where

each foot two syllables that are “stressed, unstressed”

Given Example:

daDUM/daDUM/daDUM/daDUM/daDUM…. the KING/doth KEEP/his RE/vels

HERE/toNIGHT

Find a line in the play that is written in iambic pentameter:

Doodle:

Internal rhyme- a rhyme that occurs in the middle of the line, not at
the end of lines.
Given Example:

The fat cat in the hat loves to eat cookies.

Find your own example from the play:

Doodle:

Monologue- when a character speaks to someone else for an

extended period of time

Given Example:

EGEUS
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
And stolen the impression of her fantasy
With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers
Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:
With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,
Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,
To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
Be it so she; will not here before your grace
Consent to marry with Demetrius,
I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman
 Or to her death, according to our law
Immediately provided in that case.

Find your own example from the play (you can just write down the first line
from the monologue and where in the play you found it):

Doodle:

Soliloquy- when a character speaks his inner thoughts aloud to

himself

Given Example:

OBERON
Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.
---My gentle Puck, come hither.

Find an example of a soliloquy in ACT I, write down the first line of it. HINT:
The person who gives one is kinda crazy…

Doodle:
Aside- when a character speaks directly at the audience for a brief
moment.

Given Example:

Think of your favorite TV shows… anytime a character looks directly into the
camera and speaks to you, that is an “aside.” Bugs Bunny uses asides a lot…
“Ain’t I a stinker?”

Find your own example from the play:

Doodle: